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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1711 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:54:47 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: SLIP Questions... In-Reply-To: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Fri, 19 Feb 1993 11:57:09 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Feb19143729@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <C2p2J9.Aor@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 20:37:29 GMT Lines: 26 In article <C2p2J9.Aor@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal) writes: I have a question about the SLIP implementation for 386BSD... I just recently got a SLIP line, and I did a little stress-testing last night [or earlier this night]. Everything seemed cool, even when running X stuff from the school's Sequent and the display set to my machine... For a while at least! After running for a while, stuff would start to freeze on me, and when I tried ping'ing a host on the campus net, i would get lots of "Writeto: not enough buffers", or something of that nature errors. Note that ping was the only app. that even gave me an error message... Everything else just froze.... There is a fix for this. You are loosing an mbuf every time you ping. I put bundled some of the patches for slip in /usr/packages/dialup-slip on ref.tfs.com (140.145.254.251). The fix should be either there or in the patch kit. Now if I killed SLATTACH, etc. and re-statred SLIP [w/out re-dialing into the SLIP server] everything would work for a while again. Also I would like to note that this "while" couls be as long as an hour and a half.... The above contains patches for the slip driver as well which will improve the reliablilty. Rich